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Tyrowicz, Joanna - 2018

We explore data from all transition economies over nearly two decades, providing insights on the mechanisms behind labor force reallocation. We show that worker flows between jobs in different industries are rare relative to the demographic flows of youth entry and elderly exit. The same applies...

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The Agricultural Productivity Gap and Self-Employment Bias in the Labor Income Share

Paul, Saumik - 2020

We propose a theory-based adjustment to the labor income share to correct for the self-employment bias. Through a two-sector neoclassical framework with agriculture and non-agriculture, we derive the productivity-adjusted aggregate labor income share in terms of the agricultural productivity...

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Evolution of Employment Protection Legislation in the USSR, CIS and Baltic States, 1985-2009

Muravyev, Alexander - 2010

former USSR - the CIS and Baltic states - over 25 years from 1985 to 2009. We use the OECD methodology (OECD EPL, version II … the former USSR with respect to firing costs were extremely rigid and were subsequently liberalized by the 15 successor … decades. By now, the ex-USSR states as a group do not differ that much from the EU-15 and OECD countries in terms of the …

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Did Soviet Elderly Employment Respond to Financial Incentives? Evidence from Pension Reforms

Malkova, Olga - 2019

This study answers the open question of whether workers respond to financial incentives in a command economy. To do this, I evaluate pension reforms in Soviet Russia in 1964 and 1969 that allowed pensioners to receive a greater share of their pensions if they worked, resulting in a progressive...

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Reassessing the Standard of Living in the Soviet Union : An Analysis Using Archival and Anthropometric Data

Brainerd, Elizabeth - 2021

Both Western and Soviet estimates of GNP growth in the USSR indicate that GNP per capita grew in every decade … - sometimes rapidly - from 1928 to 1985. While this measure suggests that the standard of living improved in the USSR throughout … across the Soviet Union to reassess the standard of living in the USSR using these alternative measures of well-being. In the …

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The Linguistic and Economic Adjustment of Soviet Jewish Immigrants in the United States, 1980 to 2000

Chiswick, Barry R.; Wenz, Michael - 2021

This paper is an analysis of the English-language proficiency and labor market earnings of adult male Soviet Jewish immigrants to the United States from 1965 to 2000, using the 2000 Census of Population. Comparisons are made to similar analyses using the 1980 and 1990 Censuses. A consistent...

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Employment Discrimination in a Former Soviet Union Republic : Evidence from a Field Experiment

Asali, Muhammad - 2017

We provide the first experimental evidence about ethnic discrimination in the labor market in Georgia. We randomly assign Georgian and non-Georgian, male and female, names to similar resumes and apply for jobs as advertised in help-wanted web sites in Georgia. We find that gender has no effect...

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Maternity Benefits and Marital Stability after Birth : Evidence from the Soviet Baltic Republics

Brainerd, Elizabeth; Malkova, Olga - 2023

Can a policy intervention in the stressful first year after a birth affect marital stability? We examine this question using a large expansion in maternity benefits in 1982 in the Baltic countries of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The program provided partially paid leave until the child's first...

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Comrades in the Family? Soviet Communism and Informal Family Insurance

Costa-Font, Joan; Nicinska, Anna - 2021

We study the effect of exposure to communism (EC), a political-economic regime based on collectivist planning, on preferences for family supports, which we refer to as 'informal family insurance'. We exploit both cross-country and cohort variation in EC in a large sample of Central and Eastern...

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Creating Jobs Through Public Subsidies:An Empirical Analysis

Girma, Sourafel; Görg, Holger; Strobl, Eric; Walsh, Frank - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2008

This paper analyses the impact of government grants on labour demand using plant leveldata for manufacturing industry …

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